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But how among countless suggestions is a "cause" to know the difference between a true invention and a pipe-dream? There is, of course, no infallible touchstone by which we can tell offhand. No one need hope for an easy certainty either here or anywhere else in human affairs. No one is absolved from experiment and constant revision.
Holmes threw a book at him, which narrowly missed Hicks as he banged the door shut behind him, and my partner immediately locked the door, put the key in his pocket, pulled a couple of cushions off a couch, placed them on the piano, perched himself up on top of the improvised seat, with his feet on the ivory keys, and then calmly proceeded to fill his well-worn pipe with some of that strong-smelling shag tobacco that he generally used when he started a meditation, or pipe-dream, just as you prefer to call it.
"You said you thought you recognized the other man by his voice. It sounds like a drunken pipe-dream, the whole of it; but who did you think it was?" Judson rose up, jerked his thumb toward the door of the superintendent's business office, and said, "Mac, if the whiskey didn't fake the whole business for me the man who was mumblin' with Bart Rufford was Hallock!"
Well, if it turned out that way Eve was not worth having. He believed that she had a heart, that if her heart were touched she would fling her interests to the winds and obey its dictates. What Eve thought during the first few days of Holden's pipe-dream is not clearly known.
The oftener they took the wrong road and had to start over, the keener they became to reach their destination. "I believe it was a pipe-dream," said Mr. Ranny; "you never saw the place at all." "Yes, I did! I'm not kidding you. It's a regular peach of a place for anybody that's got money to fix it up. Hold on a minute; this looks like the side lane. Do you mind walking the rest of the way?"
Then to the thronging queries threatening to return and keep him awake: "Scat! go away! call it a pipe-dream and let me go to sleep!" In his most imaginative moments, Evan Blount had never prefigured a home-coming to coincide in any detail of it with the reality.
Adam Strang is a pipe-dream. You read it somewhere." "Never," I averred. "The little I read of Korea was the war correspondence at the time of the Japanese-Russian War." "Do you remember all you read?" Oppenheimer queried. "No." "Some you forget?" "Yes, but "
"He was as full of fancies as a fig is of seeds. I have been trying to believe that what he told me isn't altogether a pipe-dream, but it sounds mightily like one.
As to murderously inclined foes, Mr. Linder disclaimed knowledge of any. The notion that the trombonist had given a signal he derided as an "Old Sleuth pipe-dream." As time went on and "clues" came to nothing, the police had no greater concern than quietly to forget, according to custom, a problem beyond their limited powers.
"Believe me or not, it wasn't any pipe-dream!" said Morgan, so earnestly that the flippancy of his slangy speech did not seem out of place. "It was a woman's voice, but it wasn't the voice of any woman in this world!" "It's a strange experience," said the judge. "You can call it that!" shuddered Morgan, expressive of the inadequacy of the words.
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